Validating a turbulence closure against estuarine microstructure measurements

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 19, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 183-203

  Peters, Hartmut ^a   Baumert, Helmut Z ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c Institute for Applied Marine and Limnic Studies   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTUARIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRANDTL NUMBER; TIDES; TURBULENT FLOW;

ESTUARINE CIRCULATION; RICHARDSON NUMBER;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MICROSTRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RICHARDSON NUMBER; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; TURBULENCE;

EID: 34548827606     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2007.07.002     Document Type: Article

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